Saturday, Apr 20, 2024 | Last Update : 12:16 PM IST

Rajgopal Nidamboor

t, the irony is, we don’t seem to deliberate on any thought connecting to such a vision when things are hunky-dory.

Mystic Mantra: Stay rooted to up your inner calm

This is the foundational touchstone for having faith in oneself and one’s own voyage through life.

06 Mar 2020 2:47 AM

ou will also be able to remember your past, while living in the present and focusing on your future. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mystic Mantra: Resonate with a firm resolve

The idea of being calm and composed promotes a pragmatic view.

19 Feb 2020 2:37 AM

This uplifts our vision and also mission for leading a life full of empathy, peace and harmony.

Mystic Mantra: The soundless sonority of your inner voice

All of us are blessed with the ability to perceive, or “tap” our own inner voice at the drop of a thought.

01 Feb 2020 3:23 AM

It is imperative that all of us possess a constant, continuing sense of conscious awareness to realising the most intense level of our being through our unconscious self. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mystic Mantra: The sum and substance of life

The offshoot of such a “norm” is obvious — it allures us to embrace and preserve the “divine in everything”.

22 Jan 2020 7:26 AM

The moment we focus on the spiritual context of our being, whatever our situation in life, we’d be in the best possible position to bring in and restore stability. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Stability and instability are prerequisites

All of us live not just in our own mind, but also our body.

04 Jan 2020 12:56 AM

Mystic Mantra - Of being cautious: The good side of bad feelings

The most obvious answer that emerges in today’s context is — relentless stress and anxiety may affect your genetic expression.

07 Dec 2019 1:44 AM

It is all part of our mind’s inner voice — the well-ingrained element of our consciousness, or soul. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Make an endeavour to understand self-belief

Self-belief is a veritable dynamo. It resides within and outside of our mind.

23 Nov 2019 2:29 AM

Cosmic intelligence suffuses everything. This is no simile — it is, in effect, the quintessential purport of our life and existence. It is also the foundational compass for all things to begin and progress. (Photo: ANI)

Mystic Mantra: Intelligence and the power of one

To place such a thought within and outside of the physics of consciousness would call for defining thinking as the active element.

13 Nov 2019 12:55 AM

Our mind mirrors our values and beliefs, including the essence of our existence. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Disengage the ‘troublemaker’ in your mind

Most of us tend to imbibe the nourishing inner wisdom of our mind, not so much when the going is good, but during difficult times.

30 Oct 2019 2:12 AM

It takes time to hone and propel a higher purpose in life, just as much it takes leisure to mature, or mellow.

Mystic Mantra: The higher purpose of our existence

In other words, to emerge as winners when we are happy, elated, and buoyant; or, get into a tizzy and be diffident, or gloomy.

26 Oct 2019 7:48 AM

“Tears,” wrote the Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher, Voltaire, “are the silent language of grief.” Research suggests that certain chemicals, like beta-endorphins, when revved up by our emotions, assuage our grief, or pain. This is evidenced to be as effective as a strenuous workout at the gym — or, achieving a state of sublime harmony analogous to mindful meditation. (Photo: Google Doodle)

Mystic Mantra: There’s more to tears than meets the eye

The more powerful the “tear-jerking” plot, visage, or story, the better the liberating upshot.

28 Sep 2019 5:22 AM

Hope symbolises a resolve, belief, or conviction. It propels us to believe in our dreams, vision, goals and ourselves. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mystic Mantra: Dwelling in possibility is hope fulfilled

Hope is not limited to a possibility synthesis.

21 Sep 2019 2:33 AM

Most of us remember certain events from the past, a majority of them being childhood memories — thanks to our remote, yet “resident” feelings. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mystic Mantra: Be mindful and fully grounded

The best thing to do is simple, also profound — to detach oneself from such a stranglehold with a sense of attached detachment.

17 Sep 2019 1:29 AM

It just needs a little empathetic push to enable our mind to remain observant, resolute and interested in soaking up all of our life’s experiences like the sponge.

Mystic Mantra: Happiness is the objective of honourable thought

While not all of us are mystics, or yogis, we can seamlessly galvanise our attentive efforts with good values and serene compassion for others.

27 Aug 2019 12:24 AM

The self is a captivating, yet intangible polaroid. It is the all-encompassing opus as large as life. It represents our language, figure of speech, syntax, and its rules. It is pervasive, also omnipresent, within us.

Mystic Mantra: The song and dance of the self

All of us idolise the self, as it were. Yet, the paradox is most of us take it as a given, also for granted.

07 Aug 2019 1:32 AM

Divine frenzy is manifest and pervades everything we do — the big, fascinating, humble or small. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: The long and short of divine frenzy

The whole summation of any imaginative voyage, simple or complex, is heightened refinement.

01 Aug 2019 12:08 AM

For Plato, the physical, yet mindful body echoed our frontiers with the inhabitant soul. (Representional Image)

Mystic Mantra: The soul is the fount of conscious awareness

It is this reality that establishes the pristine role of our conscious awareness in the working of our mind, body and soul.

16 Jul 2019 12:52 AM

Put simply, this means that individuals who live in accord with what they feel as natural are better equipped to regulate their fixations. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Be compassionate in your quest for control

It is an age-old trait — that to “be in command” elevates one’s defence, also standing, if not reputation.

13 Jul 2019 5:11 AM

The more we endeavour to decipher such tapped or untapped prowess, the more we “fuel” our sense of being, as also our creative abilities, while accepting the wisdom that life is a blessing. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: The effulgent resonance of life

It epitomises the tang of success, while nourishing the resonance of our inner voice, or soul, with divine insight — and not just intervention.

29 Jun 2019 12:25 AM

Mystic Mantra: Let the world be your oyster

The philosopher Socrates set the record straight.

18 Jun 2019 3:39 AM

1 of 2

Columns

Shobhaa De